Incase you haven’t heard, there are some vacancy openings here at our beautiful Fiji islands.

Due to recent crisis, a few job opportunities coming up which you might like to take advantage of. The opening positions are as followed :

Application for Fiji Prime Minister and Carbinet Minister Jobs

Military commander Voreqe Bainimarama says people can apply for the job of Prime Minister or Cabinet minister in his interim government.

Application for Publisher at Daily Post

“We’ve had death threats, bomb threats and our publisher is in and out of hiding after being named by Commander Bainimarama on Friday,”

The situation has led the publisher, Mr Alan Hinkling, to recommend asking the Australian High Commission to support applications by staff for asylum.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t get hold of the requirement details for the above positions but I bet you got to have some sense of adventure. Already a friend of mine is going for PM position and buying my vote. I think lunch/dinner would be fine. haha
So just try your luck, you never know you might be the next Fiji PM in line.

Read latest Fiji crisis news on Fijitimes.

Things are a bit tense here in Suva. People talking about another coup?? There’s gonna be some kind of march tomorrow and also a parliament session going on…or something like that. I don’t know, I don’t care!

Just that I’m so pissed off at the moment with god damn checkboxlist control. The freaking thing took me the whole of last nite till 3:30am to get proper binding and insert working. Now, checked items retrival from database is not binding well. Garrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrh! I just want to trash up the whole laptop!!

Oh and the damn phone at home, it’s not working for two weeks already. Telecom bastards giving too many excuses, like bad weather, too much raining, no technicians blar blar blah! No Phone, No Internet, No Nothing. If I see anyone from telecom rite now, I’m gonna go give a big kick. Arrgghhh!
Anyway, where was I? Oh yah so there is a big fishy fishy going on in Fiji air – the political affair. Some people telling me not to go to work tomorrow and may be on friday too. Good idea, but then I got two scheduled customer meetings tomorrow, so no can do. hmmmmmmmmmmm

PM public addressing on TV tonite at 7pm. Read more on FijiTimes: Fiji PM to address nation, resignation a possibility

Updated: My sincere request to all mmbloggers

Hey why don’t we just take these as a merry debate and let’s just not be too serious about it? I know some of you are really pissed at me but don’t you think you enjoyed reading all those comments on how pissed you are about my post? I’m sure in your unconscious mind, you are enjoying the talks.

As for me, I’m loving it! I have never seen this much numbers of comments and posts on one issue yet and I have never seen varieties of you-bloggers feelings before. I must say, I have achieved my purpose in placing the “voices” to where it belongs. (smile)

This is the whole point you see; bring up something to discuss on, debate on, talk about, think about, feel about, express about, swear about, be sad about, be happy about, be piss about. After all we human beings are very emotional creatures and sometimes it’s very good to show your true emotion as it sets you free.

Don’t you think KoNLS and I are doing the splendid job of making you think, making you speak up, making you comment on the issue that you have very different view on? I must say this is kind of interesting to see many people who have never commented/visited your site suddenly take interest in what you are saying and dropping their 2cents. After all that’s what the whole blogging is about (for me at least), to share ideas and viewpoints through effective commenting. Your comments (bad or good) are helping me see things in different perspectives, which in turns will help me a lot in my future purposes.

Boy, believe it or not, I seriously thank you all for this. First I thought of ignoring you, but that would be disrespect for all of you and it shows that I do not care about others, which is wrong. I made up my mind that, I will never be “don’t care” kind of person and I started this post because I actually care about mmBlogging community.

You are angry now but you won’t be angry for long. Once your anger fades away, you’ll be amazed that you actually voice up on what you believe in and stood up bravely to say so. I’m so proud of you and you know you are too. (smile)

I am told that in many culture, when a gal/lady is requesting sincerely, the gentlemen would consider. (smile)

Sweet arse kicking Excellent comments and posts I shook up.(wink*)

• Ko Nyi Lynn Seck’s Post
• Kick Arse Comments Ever
• Wai Pyo’s Post
• MyoChauHtun’s Post”
• MMHan’s Post
• ThantZin’s Post
• CMS’s Post
• 99 Sanay’s Post
• Linlatkyalsin’s Post
• 100% Life’s Post
• Sinsain’s Post
• and I lost track…

Post starts here:

I came across this Fiji site “Vakaivosavosa” the other day via incoming links in my admin. I didn’t know there are much of Fiji bloggers out there, but it seems like quite a lot actually exist and the number is growing. This site has a good list of Fiji blogs and he added my site as one too. How cool is that.

I have no idea how he come to know my site or who exactly the blogger is. I guess from the search hits people can reach each other. There are lots of new fiji blogs and links on his site that I never know of; very interesting. The blog is well established and focus on current affairs and politics in Fiji. The discussions are great with most of the posts receiving comments, impressive!

I guess blogs, blogging and bloggers are in massive blooming each day. Already there are 100+ known blogspot sites by myanmar bloggers compare to less than 5 Myanmar blogs when I started a few year back.

I tried to roll most of the blogs but after a while I lost track as the number increase with a great speed. I must say though, some blogs are not worth rolling along as 80% of them are inactive … I mean test blogs kind of thing but the other 20% doing very well.

Another thing I notice about Myanmar blogs are 90% copy cats. I mean, give me a break, every single blogs have to use the same old black skin? 99% of them have a shout box in it. And do you have to use the same shout box application/code also? Some new blogs just copy the whole thing including shout box code so you can see the other blogger’s conversation on their blog as well. Also, must every single blog have to publish background music or Odoe or downloads just becos this senior/model blogger is doing so?

Please be genuine, why do you have to continue copying what others do?
Where is your originality? Where is your creativity? Where is your imagination? Where is your uniqueness? It’s very depressing to see clone blogs one after another.
Myanmar blogs gene pool getting narrow. No wonder we are slow adapters. We can’t adjust ourselves fast enough with new medium but we tend to dwell on the same old habitual routine. Gosh I’m stunned.

My 2cents: Be creative, let your imaginations go wild for once in a while, show off your artistic side, do change that black background and be colorful for god sake. Instead of yelling 80% nonsense in the shout boxes and utilize comment feature on particular topic/post to give your constructive feedback once in a while. Let your voice be heard in a proper way, in a great manner, with legitimate reasoning. And let your comment be resourceful and supportive for each other.

I’m not degrading Myanmar blogs nor I intending any displeasure. I have a great respect for Myanmar blogging community and am very fond of some blogs as I visit them regularly. I guess I’m just doing a merry observation on Myanmar blogging community as they are blooming intensively. And now I’m starting to check out Fiji blogging progress as well. I’m glad no black background yet and no clone blogs yet.

Most of Fijian art and crafts use excessive amount of brown, gray, black, white and abit of orange colors.

Their designs are mainly in square based shapes with basic trigonometry patterns such as circles, triangles and polygons.

Most of their materials are made of flatten wood barks(Tapa/Masi), special type of dry leaves (Voi Voi) and some paint that I don’t know of. I’m not the right person to explain about Fijian art and crafts as I lack the very knowledge. Anyway I got these nice Fijian crafts from a mail and thought of share with you so that you can see how Fijian designs looks like.

If you wanna order some of them for souvenirs, I accept checks or credit card orders only.
Let me advertise our very own Fiji Shop here. You can buy some nice fijian handicrafts from there. We (our company) kinda maintain the site (suppose to be), but not much updates I guess.
And…I’m not sure these are on Fiji Shop yet.

Technorati Tags: Fijian Handicrafts, Fiji Shop, Porcelain, Ceramics Dishes

Photo blogging on actions of last week sunday game: 3rd September 06 at Yet Sen Secondary School.

A friendly game between various badminton clubs from Suva and Lautoka organised by Lautoka Chinese Business Group.

Yet Sen Courts are where we held most of our Badminton Games and is a place where everyone loves to hang out either to play Badminton, Table Tennis or Basket Ball.

Ladies Doubles

Mom and Sally gave a hard time to all ladies double pairs and they won the final against Lautoka. My mom having a bad kneel and Sally with sore wrists, their games were so fun to watch.

Lunch time break

Peace from Jessy and Mom. Aung taking a rest for his next mix-doubles and single games.

Mens Doubles : Aung + Jack

Aung and Jack played final Men Single with 3 sets. Aung had a very hard time with Jack and in the last game he tried so hard to get 21 all. Then 22 twice, 23 twice and the last point is scored by Jack to be a Men Single Winner. Aung was satisfied with Men Single Runner up. That was the best and longest game of all. Everyone enjoyed it and applauded so loud in the end. They team up to play Mens Doubles and they won the final, no doubt about that.

Mix Doubles : Aung + Mom

Aung and Mom played Mix and won Mix Doubles against the gangs from Lautoka – Wong + Nail. Sisters team by Beryl and Jessy lost to Lautoka gals in semi-final.

Beryl and the kids helped out the score keeping and empiring the games.

And ofcos the best shot of the day goes to:

Hal hal hal hal hal
I got so tired watching and fell sick afterward. I think too much taking photos and didn’t had my lunch well. Was so hungry the whole day and came back home so late. It’s not easy being a photographer haha.

I’m abit disappointed in Flickr. Don’t take me wrong. I love flickr and its amazing service. I’ve been trying to buy pro account since I got lots of photos up in my free account which like to organize them with proper photo sets.

What you get:

• 2 GB monthly upload limit
• Unlimited storage
• Unlimited bandwidth
• Unlimited photosets
• Permanent archiving of high-resolution original images
• Ad-free browsing and sharing *

Which account would you like?
– A 1 year account (US $24.95), or
– A 2 year account (US $47.99)

The problem is, when I try the payment processes, everything is fine except for the country part where there is no “Fiji” to choose from.
I could leave it as default “US” but my credit card address below would be “Fiji” and it’ll be confusing…

They do have an option to pay offline via cheque or money order I think, but it will take a while to process and I don’t like to send my money like that and wait. Well, abit of user unfriendliness in payment process which put me off from buying the pro account.

I don’t understand why they can’t add all countries in the country drop-down list. They’re thinking people from Fiji can’t buy or something? Well just a bit of disappointment to see the third world countries are not included. So sad!.

Technorati Tags: Flickr, Photo Sharing, Services, Pro-Account, Payments, Countries

Live coverage from here at Election Media Center.

We are having an election here in Fiji and I’m on duty on polling as well as counting days. So for the next 2 weeks our team will be on and off at Election Media Center over at police academy. Everything here is pretty much organized, like the food(most important part), the facilities(network, computers etc), the stationeries and the support staffs.

The only thing I gotta say is that…there are lots of mosquitoes at election media center. My gosh, my shift is in the afternoon and the mosquitoes are killing me. I can’t imagine how it would be like for the gang at night shifts. I guess I gotta tell them to bring Motein with them. I just murdered 3 mosquitoes and plenty more around me. God damn blood suckers!

Anyway I was pretty busy doing some data entries and now I’m free so blogging about my first shift here. They’re having live media coverage with a few reporters and election officers. So yah I gotta see live rather than on TV. Well no difference, same old people, they look no better outside than in TV haha.

Oh yah I forgot to bring my camera with me so I can’t take picture of the media center and the set ups. Will do that next time on my shift. Nothing much really to show you since it’s just starting days and kinda boring sitting here. Just watching people come and leave as the shift changing and my coffee gone cold cos’ it’s too bitter, man no suger!
Oh one more thing I notice about the media center is that, there’s a few water leakage from the roof. I mean not from the roof, from the louvers, when it rains the water spills a bit from the top. Kinda annoying, but not too serious so it’s ok.

Hmm what else? Yah that’s about it for today. I’m gonna check how I can get some photos form information group camera man.